‘God is Love’; when Love is awakened in the heart, God is awakened there.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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Life’s light is Love; and when the heart is empty of Love, are living and yet not living; from a spiritual point of view we are dead. When the heart is asleep, we are as though dead in this life, for we can only love through the heart. But Love does not mean give and take. That is only a trade; it’s selfishness. To give sixpence and receive a shilling (12 pence) is not Love. Love is when one loves for the sake of Love, when one cannot help but love, cannot do anything but love. Then one is not forced to love; there is no virtue in that. One does not love because another does. It is simply there. It cannot be helped. It is the only thing that makes a person alive. If a person loves one and hates another, what can that person know of Love? Can you love one person fully if at the same time you cannot bestow a kind glance on some other person? Can you say you love one person fully when you cannot bear that one to be loved by someone else as well? Can you hate a person when Love is sprinkled like water in your heart? Love is like the water of the Ganges. It is itself a purification. As the Bible says, ‘God is Love’. When Love is awakened in the heart, God is awakened there. When we have journeyed, we reach the goal as soon as our heart has reached Love.
The Sufis say, ‘The Kaaba, the Divine Place, Paradise, is the heart of the human being’. That is why they have respect for every heart. Every heart is their Kaaba, their shrine. The human heart is the place toward which they bow, for in this heart is God.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VII – In an Eastern Rose Garden: The Journey to the Goal )
Some object to Christ being called divine; but if divinity is not sought in humanity, then in what shall we seek God? Can divinity be found in the tree, in the plant, in the stone? Yes indeed, God is in all; but at the same time, it is in humanity that divinity is awakened, that God is awakened, that God can be seen.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume X – Sufi Mysticism, Part I: Sufi Mysticism, Chapter I – Mysticism )
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
That is to say, one realizes that the real experience of Life is, was, and shall be nothing but God. We are nothing but God’s dreams of self until we awaken to the fullness of the True Self.